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RE: Newly created replication slot may be invalidated by checkpoint

Zhijie Hou (Fujitsu) <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com> — 2025-11-21T06:14:38Z

On Thursday, November 20, 2025 6:44 PM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM Zhijie Hou (Fujitsu) <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Thursday, November 20, 2025 4:26 PM Vitaly Davydov
> <v.davydov@postgrespro.ru> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Concerning reserve_wal_for_local_slot. It seems it is used in
> > > synchronization of failover logical slots. For me, it is tricky to
> > > change restart_lsn of a synced logical slot to RedoRecPtr, because
> > > it may lead to problems with logical replication using such slot
> > > after the replica promotion. But it seems it is the architectural
> > > problem and it is not related to the problems, solved by the patch.
> >
> > I think this is not an issue because if we use the redo pointer
> > instead of the remote restart_lsn as the initial value, the synced
> > slot won't be marked as sync-ready, so user cannot use it after
> > promotion (also well documented). This is also the existing behavior
> > before the patch, e.g., if the required WALs were removed, the oldest
> > available WAL was used as the initial value, similarly resulting in the slot not
> being sync-ready.
> >
> 
> Would it be better to discuss this in a separate thread? Though this is related
> to original problem but still in a separate part of code
> (slotsync) which I think can have a separate fix especially when the fix is also
> somewhat different.
> 
> > >
> > > The change of lock mode to EXCLUSIVE in
> > > ReplicationSlotsComputeRequiredLSN may affect the performance when
> a
> > > lot of slots are advanced during some small period of time. It may
> > > affect the walsender performance. It advances the logical or
> > > physical slots when receive a confirmation from the replica. I
> > > guess, the slot advancement may be pretty frequent operation.
> >
> > Yes, I had the same thought and considered a simple alternative
> > (similar to your suggestion below): use an exclusive lock only when
> > updating the slot.restart_lsn during WAL reservation, while continuing
> > to use a shared lock in the computation function. Additionally, place
> XLogSetReplicationSlotMinimumLSN() under the lock.
> > This approach will also help serialize the process.
> >
> 
> Can we discuss this as well in a separate thread?

OK, I think it makes sense to start separate threads.

I have split the patches based on the different bugs they
address and am sharing them here for reference.

Best Regards,
Hou zj